Urvashi Butalia

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Urvashi Butalia (2011)

Urvashi Butalia (* 1952 in Ambala , India ) is an Indian writer , historian , publisher and feminist . With Ritu Menon Urvashi Butalia founded the first feminist publishing house in India Kali for Woman . After an amicable separation in 2003, Butalia runs her own publishing house, Zubaan Books .

Urvashi Butalia speaks several Indian languages ​​( Hindi , Punjabi , Bengali ) as well as English , French and Italian . She lives in New Delhi .

Apprenticeship and publishing career

Urvashi Butalia earned a bachelor's degree in literature from the University of Delhi in 1971 and then a master's degree in literature from the same university in 1973. She received a master's degree in South Asian Studies in 1977 from the University of London .

She began her journalistic career as an editor at Oxford University Press in Delhi and worked at the publisher's headquarters in Oxford . On her return she taught publishing at the University of Delhi. In 1982 she joined Zed Books London and helped set up a women's and gender research publishing program .

Own literary work

Butalia concentrated her own writing on the modern history of India and on the partition of India and oral traditions in particular. She has also written on gender, communalism , fundamentalism, and the media .

Her book The Other Side of Silence is one of the most influential books on South Asian studies of the past decade. It remained at the top of the Indian bestseller list for more than six months, winning the Oral History Book Association Award in 2001 and the Nikkei Asia Award for Culture in 2003. The book is the result of more than 70 interviews that Butalia did with survivors of the partition of India, stressing in particular the role of violence against women in the collective experience of the tragedy.

Butalia writes for The Guardian , The Statesman , Times of India and magazines such as Granta , Outlook, New Internationalist and India Today .

Social Commitment

Butalia has actively participated in Indian and global women's movements, including with Samta, an organization advocating for a change in Indian laws on violence against women, dowry and rape. She works as a consultant for various national and international organizations.

Works

  • Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South , Chestnut Hill, MA: Bellagio, Pub. Network, 1995.
  • Women and the Hindu Right: A collection of essays , New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1995.
  • Women and Right Wing Movements: Indian Experiences , London: Zed Books, 1995.
  • In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women , Boulder, Westview Press, 1994.
  • The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India , Penguin Books India, December 1, 1998
  • Speaking Peace: Women Voices from Kashmir , 2002

In German language:

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sven Hansen: India. Which gives India's women a voice , on the website of the Gunda Werner Institute of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, accessed on January 1, 2013
  2. ↑ Goethe medals awarded in Weimar / Three women honored for their commitment to human rights / boersenblatt.net. Retrieved August 29, 2017, from https://www.boersenblatt.net/artikel-goethe-medalis_in_weimar_verliehen.1360713.html .

Web links

Commons : Urvashi Butalia  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  1. Brief description of the German-language and newly edited edition of 'Silence'
  2. Brief portrait at the publisher dtv
  3. Brief portrait at the Lotos Werkstatt publishing house
  4. Urvashi Butalia: Be embraced, millions. The Indian women's movement between lobby politics and identity conflicts

In English

Excerpts from her work The Other Side of Silence , Copyright © 2007 University of Hawai'i Press.

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SURNAME Butalia, Urvashi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yates, Frances Amelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian historian, author, publisher and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Ambala , India